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Christmas Baby {birth}

Let me tell you a story…   On Christmas morning I woke up groggy after a weekend spent in bed coughing & fighting a cold.  My teenagers slept.  My dog slept.  My husband slept.  My five-year-old danced around the Christmas tree singing, “Wake up, wake up, wake up!” I heard her thump down the stairs…

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Me & Maternity

Early last summer on a sticky afternoon I met two talented photo-friends at a park near the Susquehanna River. For playtime. They wanted to practice using remote flashes, cool-kid techy stuff. But what was supposed to be practice (just for fun) turned into something so much more. Danelle & Karey gifted these beautiful photos to…

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Jen&Brad {Maternity} Spring Lake, NJ July 2012

Lucky duck that I am, I got to work with a friend on this shoot.   Make-up artist Yvonne Moss (her blog here) called me up for this maternity session.  We had just worked together in the delivery room a few nights before where she served as doula and I shot my first amazing birth – more on…

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Jaime {Maternity} Spring Lake, NJ April 2012

Jaime & I scheduled our session and it fell on a blustery Pooh Bear kind of day.  It was so windy!  Before our appointment, I sat brainstorming.  I thought and I thought some more.  Fabric?  Several yards worth??  Hm!  Just as I was scheming a stop at Joanne’s I ran it by my mother-in-law, wondered if she…

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Megan {Maternity} January 2012

Maternity photography has to be my favorite trend in professional photography.  We can’t help but take pictures of our miracles, document that breath of time when they’re just newborns.  But, until recently, most women have avoided the camera “all big and pregnant.”  The curves of our female body have always been immortalized in art & maternity photography acknowledges…

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